Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Hampstead Union, Middlesex, 1861
In 1861, the Poor Law Board published a return of the name every adult pauper who had been a workhouse inmate for a continuous period of five years or more, together with the duration of their residence (in years and months), the reason for it, and whether they had been brought up in a District or separate Workhouse School. It was noted that the term 'District School' had been widely misinterpreted by respondents as meaning any school in the local area, such as a national or private school, and that there was only one instance in the whole report of an inmate actually having been in such a school.
| Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Bambury | 9 | 0 | Age and bodily infirmity | no. |
| Martha Bishop | 10 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Catherine Burke | 10 | 0 | Age and bodily infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Booman | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Benjamin Brown | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Benjamin Busby | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Agnes Boyce | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Cornwell | 9 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Rachael Chapel | 8 | 0 | Age and bodily infirmity | no. |
| Maria Godfrey | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Anthony Hearn | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Holmes | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edward Jackson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Knight (1) | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Knight (2) | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Lamb | 9 | 0 | Age and loss of memory | no. |
| Margaret Mackelroy | 10 | 0 | Age and bodily infirmity | no. |
| Ann Moles | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Morris | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Mitchell | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Munday | 7 | 0 | Age and weakness of memory | no. |
| Robert Mann | 9 | 0 | Age | no. |
| James Odell | 10 | 0 | Age and bodily infirmity | no. |
| Rebecca Reed | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Smart | 10 | 0 | Total blindness | no. |
| Sarah Scotland | 7 | 0 | Age and bodily infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Simpson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Tack | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Tomlinson | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Aaron Wright | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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